"Incidentally, there's a reason Breaking Bad is set in America. Here, he'd just get the treatment, without the threat of destitution"
I know this is a minor point, but if you actually watch Breaking Bad, they make it clear early on that his cancer is inoperable. He is making meth to provide for his family after he dies, not to pay for treatment.
Molecules in the atmosphere don't care about policy positions. Despite any strong policy changes, US greenhouse gas emissions are declining. Total emissions have declined 7%since 2005, largely as a result of conversion to natural gas. Emissions per capita and emissions per GDP have even more sharply declined.
While you may be right, your methods of persuasion are ineffectual and counterproductive. Literally no person in the history of the world has ever changed their mind because someone shouted at them and called them "STUPID".
Take a break from atmospheric studies and learn a little bit about human psychology.
I actually didn't bother to look at the report, because the first page made it sufficiently clear that the data is at least 4 years out of date and, more importantly, irrelevant to the topic at hand.
That report is only *graduate* student debt; not bachelor's degrees. Since an MBA is by far the most common masters degree, its not surprising that it leads in debt.
IMO (and the consensus in the comments on the last story): the only theaters worth going to are Drafthouse-style restaurant/bar theaters. In which case you're basically paying for a night out with friends at a bar and the movie itself is almost a secondary draw.
Any tier 1 research university will offer full scholarship plus stipend for a student in a mathematics PhD program. If you pay anything for your daughter to get a PhD, then you are getting ripped off.
Average undergraduate tuition and fees and room and board rates charged for full-time students in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by level and control of institution: 1963-64 through 2015-16
That will save you the suffering of having to physically be in Florida. If you're going to visit a 3rd world country on your vacation, there are others that are cheaper, safer and have better food.
The absence of alpha waves is conclusive of brain death, but the presence of alpha waves is ambiguous, at best. Experiments have detected human-like alpha waves in a bowl of Jell-O.
You are vastly overestimating the prestige and respect of adult black belts. To most adults, martial arts is just another geek hobby. Like SCA or Magic the Gathering.
What cartoons did you learn history from? The World Wars were not the first international wars; they weren't even the first intercontinental wars. Winston Churchill said that the Seven Years War (1754- 1763) should rightly be called the First World War. But even before that there were conflicts such as the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) that involved coalitions spanning from England to the Middle East.
I'm not even going to entertain theories about internationalist globalists conspiracies from someone who can't even get basic historical facts straight.
Like the politico article says, there are other EU countries that have secessionist factions of their own to deal with. Allowing Scotland to secede from the UK and rejoin the EU would pave the path for Catalonia, Walloon or any other disgruntled region to do the same. Joining the EU requires unanimous consent from the member states, so it wouldn't be hard to block Scotland from rejoining.
Two World Wars were fought because of Nationalism in Europe. The attempt at applying the Nation-State paradigm in Africa and the Middle East has failed and lead to a perpetual state of conflict in both regions. The future of government will either become more globalist or hyper-local. But the current status quo is clearly not a stable equilibrium.
In my opinion, I think they would. If the vote was close, like 51% in favor, there would be some legal maneuvering to prevent it; ballot measures can be overturned by the Supreme Court. But if support for leaving was at 60% or more, there is just not the political will to oppose it. Certainly not enough to go to war. As Peter Theil pointed out, Republicans would actually stand to gain the most from a California exit because they would have almost unopposed control over the remainder of the country.
That explanation is simply counterfactual to the actual historical development of representative democracy. You're just regurgitating the rationalization that was given to you by people have interest in maintaining the status quo. The people of England did not voluntarily get together and choose to have their power delegated to representatives. The democratic aspects were slowly (and often reluctantly) adopted to fit into to the existing feudal framework.
In the United States, more and more issues are being handled by ballot measures. In 2016, Washington state had 9 state-wide ballot initiatives. These addressed issues ranging from the construction of new transit to a minimum wage hike.
Our state government is basically just a glorified budget committee. The topics you listed (betting, urban congestion, housing policies, etc.) would all be ballot issues here. Other states are the same or headed in the same direction.
The reason countries have a representative democracy is because modern government is a compromise between medieval traditions and the growing demand for popular democracy. Representatives sitting around in a fancy building is a vestige of a more primitive time. Any other explanation is just post-hoc rationalization.
The reason that popular votes tent to float around 50% is that widely popular or unpopular policies don't need to be voted on. The only time you need to take a formal vote is when the consensus is unclear.
You seem to have a very Civ game view of history, where countries themselves have personalities and interests that span centuries. The long view of history is mostly driven by accidents and coincidences. At various times, Britain has been tight allies and deadly enemies with just about European nation. Its been a trading nation and its been an insular mercantilist nation. So who cares what the 15th century policy was between King of England and Duke of Burgundy? NO ONE. NO ONE CARES AT ALL.
People live in the present and they make decisions based on the circumstances at hand. Really deep thinking people might look one generation ahead. But that's it.
Britain isn't leaving NATO (yet). Being in the EU or not has nothing do with whether they would defend other European nations from military aggression.
Scotland is definitely leaving the EU along with UK. If they vote for independence, they could reapply to the EU. But this is far from automatic, since there are other EU members that are struggling to discourage their own secessionists.
Effective democracy requires that constituents have common interests and the right to secede is necessary component. Let's say you have group of 5 co-workers that always vote on where to go to lunch. If four of those coworkers are vegetarians and one is not, then meat-eater's only choice is to accept always being outvoted or to leave the group entirely.
After Brexit, Scotland will reconsider if they still enough common interests to remain in the UK. If the West Midlands or Greater Manchester wish to do the same, that's their prerogative, too.
This whole concept of Nationalism and Nation-States is only a 19th century experiment and it doesn't seem to working out well in a lot of cases. It might turn out that the most stable expression of democracy is something that resembles the loosely allied city-states of ancient Greece.
Be a reasonably successful professional in a high paying field. This is slashdot... its safe too assume most people here aren't slinging chalupas at Taco Bell for a living.
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Who is going to remove him from office and how?
I know this is a minor point, but if you actually watch Breaking Bad, they make it clear early on that his cancer is inoperable. He is making meth to provide for his family after he dies, not to pay for treatment.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-in...
Take a break from atmospheric studies and learn a little bit about human psychology.
I actually didn't bother to look at the report, because the first page made it sufficiently clear that the data is at least 4 years out of date and, more importantly, irrelevant to the topic at hand.
That report is only *graduate* student debt; not bachelor's degrees. Since an MBA is by far the most common masters degree, its not surprising that it leads in debt.
IMO (and the consensus in the comments on the last story): the only theaters worth going to are Drafthouse-style restaurant/bar theaters. In which case you're basically paying for a night out with friends at a bar and the movie itself is almost a secondary draw.
Any tier 1 research university will offer full scholarship plus stipend for a student in a mathematics PhD program. If you pay anything for your daughter to get a PhD, then you are getting ripped off.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/d...
Short version: In constant dollars, tuition has doubled since your bottle collecting days.
That will save you the suffering of having to physically be in Florida. If you're going to visit a 3rd world country on your vacation, there are others that are cheaper, safer and have better food.
The absence of alpha waves is conclusive of brain death, but the presence of alpha waves is ambiguous, at best. Experiments have detected human-like alpha waves in a bowl of Jell-O.
You are vastly overestimating the prestige and respect of adult black belts. To most adults, martial arts is just another geek hobby. Like SCA or Magic the Gathering.
Why would I stay informed about a bunch of UK issues, when I'm a US citizen?
I'm not even going to entertain theories about internationalist globalists conspiracies from someone who can't even get basic historical facts straight.
Like the politico article says, there are other EU countries that have secessionist factions of their own to deal with. Allowing Scotland to secede from the UK and rejoin the EU would pave the path for Catalonia, Walloon or any other disgruntled region to do the same. Joining the EU requires unanimous consent from the member states, so it wouldn't be hard to block Scotland from rejoining.
Two World Wars were fought because of Nationalism in Europe. The attempt at applying the Nation-State paradigm in Africa and the Middle East has failed and lead to a perpetual state of conflict in both regions. The future of government will either become more globalist or hyper-local. But the current status quo is clearly not a stable equilibrium.
In my opinion, I think they would. If the vote was close, like 51% in favor, there would be some legal maneuvering to prevent it; ballot measures can be overturned by the Supreme Court. But if support for leaving was at 60% or more, there is just not the political will to oppose it. Certainly not enough to go to war. As Peter Theil pointed out, Republicans would actually stand to gain the most from a California exit because they would have almost unopposed control over the remainder of the country.
In the United States, more and more issues are being handled by ballot measures. In 2016, Washington state had 9 state-wide ballot initiatives. These addressed issues ranging from the construction of new transit to a minimum wage hike.
https://ballotpedia.org/Washin...
Our state government is basically just a glorified budget committee. The topics you listed (betting, urban congestion, housing policies, etc.) would all be ballot issues here. Other states are the same or headed in the same direction.
The reason countries have a representative democracy is because modern government is a compromise between medieval traditions and the growing demand for popular democracy. Representatives sitting around in a fancy building is a vestige of a more primitive time. Any other explanation is just post-hoc rationalization.
The reason that popular votes tent to float around 50% is that widely popular or unpopular policies don't need to be voted on. The only time you need to take a formal vote is when the consensus is unclear.
People live in the present and they make decisions based on the circumstances at hand. Really deep thinking people might look one generation ahead. But that's it.
Britain isn't leaving NATO (yet). Being in the EU or not has nothing do with whether they would defend other European nations from military aggression.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-nor...
Scotland is definitely leaving the EU along with UK. If they vote for independence, they could reapply to the EU. But this is far from automatic, since there are other EU members that are struggling to discourage their own secessionists.
http://www.politico.eu/article...
After Brexit, Scotland will reconsider if they still enough common interests to remain in the UK. If the West Midlands or Greater Manchester wish to do the same, that's their prerogative, too.
This whole concept of Nationalism and Nation-States is only a 19th century experiment and it doesn't seem to working out well in a lot of cases. It might turn out that the most stable expression of democracy is something that resembles the loosely allied city-states of ancient Greece.
Be a reasonably successful professional in a high paying field. This is slashdot... its safe too assume most people here aren't slinging chalupas at Taco Bell for a living.